Predicting diagnoses from illness experiences with common cold symptoms before physician consultation: a mixed-methods research.

Objectives: We aimed to explore whether patients' illness experiences with common cold symptoms could help with predicting the final diagnosis before consultation.

Design: Exploratory sequential design of mixed methods: Qualitative and quantitative studies used inductive qualitative content analysis and multinomial regression analysis, respectively.

Setting: Consecutive patients at the primary care clinic of a general hospital.

Why does activated partial thromboplastin time prolongation occur in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome?

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is caused by infection with SFTS virus and this mortality rate is 16.2% to 30%. An 85-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department of the hospital with primary complaints of fever and consciousness disturbance.